The Joshua Light Show

The Joshua Light Show is a light show, which was founded in 1967 by Joshua White in New York and with analog devices such as slide projectors, overhead projectors, color wheels, prisms and mirrors background animations to psychedelic rock concerts by groups such as The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and others created. These were, inter alia, oil-containing colored liquids used, which were projected in ever new variations into each other as running back projections or Aufpro on a white surface behind or above the musicians.

Bill Graham committed the group that at times up to ten members included the then-new Fillmore East.

Due to its enormous popularity, the group met increasingly also in classical concert halls such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

In 2012, the Joshua Light Show kicked in the Transmediale at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt three times before a packed hall among others with Manuel Göttsching on as a highlight. For this, they had a piece of equipment flown several thousand kilos material from New York.